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boo noun- marijuana US, 1959
- “Boo is a crutch fo you,” Lee snorted. — Clarence Cooper Jr, Black, p. 104, 1963
- Smoking marijuana–also called pot, tea, grass, stuff, boo, hemp and Mary Jane–seems to be this year’s way among students of preserving the perennial illusion that the younger generation is going to hell. — Time, 12 March 1965
- Hey, really, you know my manic thing with boo. If I start seeing spiders, you can always slip me a little niacin. — Richard Farina, Been Down So Long, p. 66, 1966
- Other brands seeking trademarks include “Weed,” “Hemp,” “Giggle Grass,” “Tea Brand Sticks,” Tijuana Boo,” “Loco Weed”–all slang for Marijuana. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 1, 27 October 1967
- I stopped by my man’s room and picked up a zulu stick of boo and then I stepped out in front of the hotel to smoke and ready myself up to peck. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 76, 1973
- His father had been unable to figure out any other way to ice Little Phil Terrone, the heaviest shit and boo dealer in the North Bronx. — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Honor, p. 4, 1982
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 286, 2003
- a sexual partner or lover US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 2, 1997
- — Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 5 March 2001
- — Gary K. Farlow, Prison-ese, p. 5, 2002
- an attractive young person US
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 84, 1968
- used as a term of endearment US
- — Rick Ayers (Editor), Berkeley High Slang Dictionary, p. 13, 2004
- an unlexicalised verbalisation of disapproval UK, 1801
- There are boos from the back. — James Mangold, Copland, p. 53, 1997
- a sulk UK
Adapted from BOOHOO - I saw Terry storm off in a boo after none of the lads would ever back him up with anything[.] — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 112, 2001
- bird or lizard droppings BARBADOS, 1998
Collected by Richard Allsopp. - anything at all US, 1883
Usually heard in the warning–“don’t say boo”. - — Joseph A. Weingarten, An American Dictionary of Slang, p. 38, 1954
- “I’ve hardly had time to say boo to her today.” — Glenn Savan, White Palace, p. 271, 1987
- nasal mucus BAHAMAS
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 24, 1982
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